Watch-charm.



' JOSEPH JOHN noLsnN, or MANrrowoc, WISCONSIN.

WATCH-CHARM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 22, 1913.

Patented Aug. 18, 1914. Serial No. 786,144.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, J OSEPH JOHN Horsnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manitowoc, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful lVatch-Charm, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in watch charms, and is designed to provide a charm so constructed that while it may be carried upon the watch chain, is operable in a useful manner to serve various purposes. Y

In accordance .with the present invention the device comprises two similar members pivoted together at one end and'formed of flat material so that they may move one upon the other in substantially parallel planes, and the two members are provided with a marginal portion or rim so related to the members asto permit the stated movement, but constraining the members to one extreme of movement. The marginal member is made of elastic material, so that the movement of the members in one direction is in opposition to the normal tendency of the border member, and as soon as pressure upon the border member is released the latter will return the other members to their first position.

The two fiat members at the ends remote from their pivot connection are provided with uniting and stop members shaped to coact in a manner permitting their use for the extraction of splinters from the flesh, or

the picking up or holding of any small articles, and between the two extremes the members are provided with cutting portions so related that the device may be used both as a cigar tip cutter'and a nail clipper. Moreover, the border member is so relatedto the pivoted ends of the flat members that there is provided a space for the attachment of the device to awatch chain, so that it may hang pendently therefrom in the manner of a J watch charm and by suitable ornamentation the device may as a useful one. I 1

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, with the further understanding that while the drawings show a practical form of the invention, the latter provide a pleasing as well is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the inventlon.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a plan view of the device viewed from one face. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device as viewed from the other face of the device with the sides moved partly together. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown two plates 1 and 2, respectively, each having one edge or margin elliptically curved and the other edge or margin in part straight, as indicated at 4, and there beveled from one face to form a knife edge, the straight portion 4 including less than the whole length of the plate. Beyond one end of the straight portion 4 each plate is formed with an ear 5 directed toward the other plate and overlapping the corresponding car, while the two cars are connected by a rivet or pivot pin 6, wherefore the two plates are pivoted together at the end having the ears 5. At the end of the cutting edge 4 remote from the corresponding ear 5 is a lip 7 ofi'standing from the edge 1 similarly to the direction of projection of the ear 5 therefrom and both the ear 5 and lip 7 project from the edge 4 in a direction away from the elliptically curved edge 3. At the end of each plate 1 and 2 remote from the ear 5 is another lip 8 spaced from the lip 7 and between the two lips 7 and 8 there is a reentrant curved portion 9 beveled at one edge to form the curved portion 9 into a cutting edge," the two cutting edges 9 of the respective plates 1 and 2 being respectively oppositely disposed, so that together they define a space or passage adapted to receive the small end of a cigar, whereby on the approach of the two plates the a cutting edges 9 will sever the tip end of a cigar after the manner of an ordinary cigar tip cutter.

The lip 8 of the plate 1 has a tongue 10 formed thereon, and this tongue is returned upon itself so as to embrace that edge of the plate 2 remote from the pivot connection with the plate 1, such edge being indicated at 11. The lip 8 of the plate 2 is formed with a tongue 12 in the plane of the lip 8 and projecting in a direction away from the pivoted end of the plate and-terminating in a point 13. The corresponding edges of the and form a ready means for grasping and withdrawing splinters from the flesh or holding any small articles.

The edges t are related one to the other so as to approach progressively from those ends ad'acent to the li 3s 7 and as the ed 'esi are beveled from relatively opposite sides to form coactive cutting ed es this part of t: the device may be employed as a nail clipper or forany cutting purposeto which they are adapted.

T hecurved edges 3- of the two plateshave applied thereto the leg portions of a U- shaped member 14, which lattermay be in the form of spring wire ofsuitable length soldered or otherwise united to the curved edges 3 but provided'with a yoke portion 15 spaced away from those parts out the two oted together by the" pivot pin 6, and the two cars 5- may be slightly recessed, as indicated at 16', so as to provide a still greater space between the wire border or marginal member 14- at"th'e yoke: portion and the corresponding part ofthe two plates 1" and 2'. This not only permits: an approach of the-yoke portion of the wire b'order'to the pivoted ends-0t the plates when they are caused 'to move one on the other in overlapping relation, but also provides room for the attachment of a ring orother deviceemployed to secure the deviceto a watch chain as a pendent-or charm.

The wire 14:, which may bet'aken as in dicative of any spring member, has a normal tendency to separate theplateal'a-nd 2zinxthe direction of theirwidtlnwbutthe extent of separation is limited by the engagement of the tongues 10 and-12 at whichtime the wire. border member still hasanelastic or'springi tendency to separate the plates. The border member ld' is yieldable to pressureap' plied at its legportions to cause them to approach and such an approachingv movement also causes the plates 1 and Q'to' slide one on the other for a. distance suflicient to cause the edges Jto completely sever the top of a cigar or-to cause the edgest to YCUt anything. mtroduced between them, while the separating action of the spring border member l-ft upon the plates 1. and? willcause: the tongues 10 and 12 when brought together to grip any small articlei between-them with suflicient force to'hold it, and this-is -especially true in the case offa spl-inter which if engaged-betweenthe tongues: will be held sufliciently' tight by the: elasticity of. the

spring. border member 14- lto perm it thewithdrawal of the splinter from the "flesh.

The members l and '2 may belmade of: any

plateswhere they are pivplate material and the border member 14: may be made of round wire or any other spring material of sutlicient gage to not only; have the spring effect, but to prevent injury or unpleasantness to the fingers of the operator.

The device in its normal inactive position "jcomprises two flat plates pivoted together at one end and at the other having lips in overlapping relation, which lips are formed 1 with stop members, one ofwhich is in embracing relation to the other plate to retain the twopla-tes in contact at said end, the adjacentmargins of the plates being provided with coacting sl iearing; edges. The outer edges or margins of the plates have the spring member fast thereto in a manner tending to constantlymove theplates apart, but these plates are never separated sulficiently to provide an openend through which anythingmaybe introduced although the cutting or shearing edges are sufliciently separated for the-introduction of the article or articles to be cut'between them in a direction substantially perpendicular to the" planes of the plates.

Theterm shearing edges is not intended to be restricted to either one of the sets of shearing edges-shown in the drawings:

The lips? and-8 of'one plate are always in overlying relation to the other plate and never move fanenough away from the other plate about the hinge connection" of the plates to cause onep'late to escapefrom the other, such separatingmovement being .prevented by the stop members or tongues. Consequently the adjacent shearing edges are always held in the- 11.10%" efiicientrelation and there is no possibility of one catching on the otherras they are approached.

The device may be made ofany suitable shape-other than that shown in the drawings, andmay beornam'en'ted in any manner desired,-but there is no attempt inthe drawings: toshow' any type of ornamentar tlon.

What 1 is claimed is- 1. A device for the purpose described, comprisingvtwo flat platespiv'oted together atoneend'and at the other-end having lips inv overlapping relation: and there formed with stop IHGTHlDGI'SgORG 'Of which is in embracing relation to "the other; plate to retain said plates in: contact: at 1 said end," the adj acent margins-of the plates beingvformed with coacting shearingedges;

2. A device for the purpose described, comprising two flat plates pivoted together atone end and at the other end formed with stop members limiting the :movement' of-the platesone away from the-other about their pivotconnection, and one-stopzmember embracing: theaothee plate to retain the plates in contact at said end,- the* adjacent margins of the plates 1' being: formed: with: coacting,

' shearing edges,and a U-shaped spring embracing the outer margins of the plates and tending constantly to hold the plates with the stop members in engagement, said spring having its bowed or yoke end spaced from the pivoted ends of the plates.

3. A device for the purpose described, comprising two flat plates pivoted together at one end and at the other end having lipseach in overlapping relation to the other plate, said plates being also formed with stop members limiting the movements of the plates one away .from *the other about their pivot connection to always retain the lips in overlapping relation to the respective other plates, and one stop member embracing the other plate to retain the plates in tending about the pivoted ends ofthe plates in spaced relation thereto.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH JOHN HOLSEN. Witnesses:

I'IERMAN G. SCHMIDT, J. M. CIsLER.

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Washington, D. 0." 

